domingo, 5 de julio de 2015

ARTE / ART: Edinburgh Art Festival 2015 - Charles Avery: The People and Things of Onomatopoeia


ARTE / ART:

Agradecimiento. Lic. Ana Teresa Delgado de Marín @delgadoanat
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Edinburgh Art Festival 2015 
Charles Avery:
The People and Things of Onomatopoeia
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
30 July - 3 October 2015 

Private View: Wednesday 29 July 2015, 6-8pm. All welcome


As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2015, Ingleby Gallery will present a major solo exhibition by Charles Avery.

In 2004, Charles Avery embarked on what will be a lifelong project titled The Islanders: a painstakingly detailed description of a fictional world that functions in parallel to our own universe, realised in drawing, painting, sculpture and text. These large-scale, narrative drawings and sculptural installations question our ideas about the nature of time, place and being. 

The Island is located in the middle of an archipelago of innumerable constituents, and its heart is the port of Onomatopoeia. This town was once a stepping off point for pioneers and travellers, then a bustling boomtown, then a slum in a state of extended decline, and now in the fictional present, it is reborn as a regenerated city of culture and a tourist destination. Our exhibition will present a new series of drawings alongside furniture, sculpture and artefacts, presented as souvenirs and objects from The Island itself. 

Coinciding with The People and Things of Onomatopoeia is a new site-specific work by Charles Avery, commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival. For this, Avery is presenting a tree from The Jadindagadendar, the municipal park of Onomatopoiea, in the midst of Waverley, Edinburgh's main train station. This tree, cast in bronze and ripe with strange fruit, draws on mathematical equations for its design and stands over five metres tall. 

Born in Oban in 1973, Charles Avery lives and works in London and the Isle of Mull. The first most comprehensive presentation of The Islanders project The Islanders; An Introduction was exhibited at Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London in 2008 and toured to The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in 2009. In 2007, Avery represented Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. 


Charles Avery in conversation with Simon Groom
Thursday 30 July 2015, 3-3.30pm 
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburg

Free, booking essential
 
Charles Avery will discuss his exhibition with Simon Groom, Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. This will be followed by a visit to see Charles Avery's public artwork at Waverley Station.

Current Exhibitions at Ingleby Gallery - Last Chance to See:

until 4 July 2015

until 4 July 2015

Ingleby Gallery

15 Calton RoadEdinburgh, Scotland EH8 8DL 
United Kingdom


Image: Charles Avery | Untitled (Two Guys in Boat Approaching Quayside) | 2015 | pencil, acrylic and ink on paper | 139 x 113 cm (page size)









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